The party ‘left home’ at the end of winter – end of Pharast (March) just after the Spring Festival. You have been away for a number of weeks - and session 39 (ie 13 Apr real date) will start with the Stag Fall holiday(14th Desnus - May) in game terms.

That means that Archerfest held at the start of Erastus (July) is about six weeks away.

Maps

If you look at the map link there are two maps and both show national borders - however, they are not in Sinc :}

The Newhaven map shows how your borders WILL BE at the end of Arodus (August) which is still about ten weeks away.

The Varnhold map shows (in pink) the borders of Varnhold as at last winter.

When I add the border for The Nomen it will be an ‘as you negotiated’ for neutral territory / De-Militarized Zone.

Nothing can happen to the shape of those borders for a few months of game time – Rova (September) at the earliest.

Meta-timing

Kingmaker is not a conventional story arc - scenarios don’t follow on directly from one to another and, while some elements are time constrained - others aren’t. And it isn’t always clear, from a player perspective, which is which. So ….

We have got to the end of the really time sensitive bits of this part of the story arc. What is left are hex crawl, map-y type scenario – and the encounters that go with them. You have prompts for a couple of them (eggs and eels) already. The rest are close by :)

You also have time to sort your treasure, get items made, or make them yourself – as well as administer your kingdom, play with your new lyre, sort out Candle Mere Island, visit Tatzleford, Mivon, Fort Drelev or even New Steven – if that is what you choose to do.

BTW – the Lyre (when someone is home to use it) reduces the cost of building by 1 or 2 BP per building – to a minimum cost of 1bp.